I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals; a kind of secret code.

If you have things right in your lifebut do not know why,you are just lucky, and you will not movein the little ways that encourage good fortune.

You can't tell when strange things with meaningwill happen. I'm [still] here writing it downjust the way it was. "You don't have toprove anything," my mother said. "Just be readyfor what God sends."

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.